Lifetime Bolsters Original Movie Department

LOS ANGELES, October 5: Lifetime Networks has named Tanya
Lopez as the senior VP of original movies, and Nancy Bennett as the VP of
original movies, effective immediately.

Both Lopez and Bennett will be based in Los Angeles. In her
new role, Lopez will be responsible for developing and overseeing all original
movies for the female-skewing basic cable network Lifetime and sister network
LMN (Lifetime Movie Network). Lopez will report to Lifetime's president of
entertainment, Susanne Daniels. Bennett will report to Lopez.

Lopez joins Lifetime from ICM, where she was a
television-packaging agent from 1997-2006. At ICM, she successfully packaged
and sold movies and mini-series to both broadcast and cable networks. She also
developed both comedy and drama series, representing such programs as That's
Life, American Family and Life with Bonnie.

Bennett joined Lifetime this past May from Mattel
Entertainment, where she was the supervising producer/director of entertainment
from 2003-2006. At Mattel, she oversaw the development and production of the American
Girl movie franchise, including: Samantha:
An American Girl Holiday, Felicity: An American Girl Adventure and Molly: An American Girl on the
Homefront. Prior to Mattel, from 2000-2002,
Bennett was the VP of production, movies and mini-series for ABC Entertainment,
where she developed and produced such movies as A Wrinkle in Time and The Miracle Worker.